Tools/Customize/Keyboard

SW2005 SP0.0

It appears that there is a bug in that once you assign a hotkey to a
command, you can't undo it. It lets you go through the procedure, and they
disappear right in front of your eyes, but then when you restart SW, they
are back. Even if you reassign one, it keeps remembering them, and all are
still active. Someone please confirm before I send it in.

WT

 

I got a confirmation of this from SW - hopefully fixed in SP1.0.

WT

 

One way I found to undo hotkeys is to blow away the SW2005 key for CU. Then
the next time you start SW it will rebuild it from the LM key. However, you
also lose any other changes you made.

WT

 

Kind of interesting in that I copied out my settings before & after adding
all the hotkeys, and then compared the files. Macro hotkeys are recorded
differently than the others. I still don't understand why the hotkeys are
recorded in 3 different keys. Intriguing, but not sure it's worth spending
the time on it.

WT

 

differently than the others. I still don't understand why the hotkeys are

I still don't understand why this is not a table somewere anywhere
that a human can read and edit. I'm absolutely tired of having to
monkey with this stuff each time there is a major release. Absolutely
tired of it. Does anyone know what my alt-f key is mapped too?
Please e-mail me with the results, because the person who programmed
the hotkey system only had enough time to tell me that the key is
already mapped and did not bother to tell me to which function. Ok -
they gave me a hint - it's a pop-up dialogue called "find & replace
detailing text", but does that actually map to one of the cute
functions names in the custom list, you know, the one where you can
only use the "hot touch" key to reach the first level of the
heirarchy, but none of the sub functions (i.e. hitting "s" takes you
to the Sketch heirarchy, but will not "penetrate" down a level to
"split"). Do the people who program this stuff know how important
hotkeys and their easy management are to the end user?

BOOO - We all deserve something better than this. I'm tired of the
stupid management of the hotkeys and the needless hiding of the
currently mapped data and the (new) registry abstractions and the
inability to just so "Ok Thanks for telling me that this is already
mapped, could you just please un-map this hot key and simply assign it
to what I just asked you to assign it to without sending me on a
likely fruitless life-quest for the hidden mapping like I was frodo
looking for the lost ring or someone in search of a new tomb in the
valley of the kings or deciphering a lost aramaic script . . .l

SIMPLE NEED:
-ONE LIST THAT I CAN READ
-ONE LIST THAT I CAN EDIT

COMPILED OR INTERPRETED, I DON'T CARE - JUST DONT LOCK ME OUT OF THE
HOUSE ANYMORE YOU CRAZY KIDS . . .

SMA

 

Actually, there is a bit of confusion here. The issue at hand was the fact
that SMA was lamenting over the fact that his alt-F is already mapped and
the system would not tell him where. You were correct in pointing out that
my list shows alt-F mapped to the macro of Fix all parts. But that would
only apply to him if he either loaded my hotkeys, or set that one himself,
and I would think he would have remembered either instance.

So, my conclusion is that he was, instead, referring to ctrl-F, which the
system does say is in use, but doesn't say where, as is its normal method.
So this is obviously a bug, and is acknowledged by SW as such, and was
assigned SPR 212054. SW2004 also had this problem.

Now, I see that ctrl-F does actually do something - it opens a box called
Find and Replace Detailing Text that allows you to search through notes for
specified text & optionally replace it. To read about it, go to Help:
notes, find and replace text. This was not a feature in SW2004, and the
issue still exists in that the system says the key combination is in use,
but doesn't list that command, or even tell you what it is.

The list of mine is something I started back about the SW2000 days out of
frustration. I wanted to know what all was available for hotkeys and nobody
had any kind of complete list. So, I sat down with a clean installation and
stepped through all the commands & menus and wrote them all down. And I
have kept it up and done it for every version since. Every once in a while
someone will feed me one that I either missed, or is undocumented, but
works.

Previous to SW2005, the hotkeys were stored in a separate file on your hard
drive in your SW installation folder in a folder called User. This file had
the name of your login with the extension .CUS. To give someone your
hotkeys, they just had to put the file there, rename it to their login, and
SW would pick it up. Not bad, but the CopyOptionsWizard would not pick it
up. The file was also not readable ASCII text. Why not? I don't know, I
didn't code it. Anyway, with 2005, the hotkeys are stored in the registry
and the CopyOptionsWizard has been rewritten to allow you to copy them with
the other settings, by themselves, or not at all. If you haven't tried the
Wizard, take a look. By the way, 2005 will also recognize the .CUS file, so
that's still an option if sometimes you don't want the hotkeys active, or
maybe want a different set active.

WT

 

Actually, there is a bit of confusion here. The issue at hand was the fact

Indeed, I am grateful that my cynically crafted rhetorical ramblings
were not taken too seriously by anyone, including me.

Here we go - maybe SW corp should pay you $1000 to consult with them
to point out all the liabilities of this keymapping funtionality and
get it fixed. It's a bummer, but I don't know who's ticking their ear
on what is needed (new & fixup). Getting things like this squared
away would make SW so much better in a real way.



SMA

 

Amen to that
I here ya talking, and I'll second that motion